The importance of proper nutrition in the first years of life in that it provides

Maturity and sound growth of physical and mental development.

Nutrition and the development and growth

The prevention of various diseases.

Acquisition of the child for healthy eating habits.

Child double weight upon reaching the fifth month, and it becomes three times its weight (when the birth) at the age of first year. If the weight of three kilograms at birth, for example, the normal-weight at the age of his first year is nine to ten grams Yellow ago.

over the length of the child at 25-30 cm in its first year, the largest percentage increase in length compared to other years old. In the second year long, between 13 and 14 cm, almost half the amount of the increase in the first tooth. The figure was down gradually so lacking in the range 5-6 cm in the fourth year and subsequent years until the child reaches the age of puberty where growth rate is accelerating again.

This is with regard to physical growth, and mental development is also a maximum Sirte in the first two years of age, and refers to the increase of head circumference of the child at this point.

Increasing head circumference 12-13 cm in the first year of life, most of almost any 90-10 cm in the months Satty first Akl at this stage to grow the quantity and quality, and increasing its size and increase the number of cells in the brain, the quantity and quality (qualitative) Petrki the work of these cells The parts inside the brain.

And also that an increase in head circumference by increasing the size of the brain and in other words, Tiger quantification of the brain, the development stages of child development and motor nerve shows the development and promotion of the brain qualitatively and qualitatively.

A child sits alone in the limits of the sixth month, and say the words FIRST (Papa, Mama ...) in the eighth month, and stands alone in the limits of the ninth month and taking the first steps in the tenth month ... And so on.

From here, we find that maturity and growth Ibulgan maximum are faster in the first two years of age, and this explains the increasing needs of the body of food in this stage, The food may be full and sufficient adult, certainly it is not enough child who is growing so rapidly, and this is obvious. Also, the quality of food as an important quantity, it must contain all the necessary elements of meat, vitamins and minerals essential for building a healthy body healthy.